Selected Op-eds and Blogs

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  1. (2025) Duterte's ICC Indictment Proves Why Power Remains the Ultimate Determinant and Arbiter of Justice – at least thus far, LSE Southeast Asia Centre Blog, 6 May. Link: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/05/06/dutertes-icc-indictment-proves-why-power-remains-the-ultimate-determinant-and-arbiter-of-justice-at-least-thus-far%EF%BF%BC/.
  2. (2022) The Political Challenges to Taiwan’s Bid to Join the CPTPP, Nottingham Taiwan Insight, 22 July. Link: https://taiwaninsight.org/2022/07/07/the-political-challenges-to-taiwans-bid-to-join-the-cptpp/.
  3. (2022) We’re Feeling It: Philippines Voters’ Emotional Beliefs in Presidential Candidates, Fulcrum. 12 April. Link: https://fulcrum.sg/were-feeling-it-philippines-voters-emotional-beliefs-in-presidential-candidates/.
  4. (2021) Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts, LSE Southeast Asia Centre Blog. 21 April. Link: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2021/04/21/ethnoreligious-otherings-and-passionate-conflicts-in-southeast-asia/.
  5. (2019) Parallels Between Religion and Nationalism, LSE & Global Society Blog. 13 September. Link: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2019/09/faith-allegiance-obedience-parallels-between-religion-and-nationalism/.
  6. (2016) The Enduring Curse of Patronage Politics, The University of the Philippines Forum. 30 April. Link: https://halalan.up.edu.ph/the-enduring-curse-of-patronage-politics-why-filipinos-should-not-elect-a-patrimonial-president-in-the-2016-elections/.